vmballoon_deinit_batching(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to vmballoon_deinit_batching(9), straight outta the Kernel API Manual ✨ the tea is simple: vmballoon_deinit_batching — disables batching mode. periodt 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the signature is literally right here, no cap:

void vmballoon_deinit_batching (struct vmballoon *b );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• b — pointer to struct vmballoon. that's the whole arg, bestie 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

this function disables batching, and it does it by:

• deallocating the page for communication with the hypervisor
• disabling the static key to indicate that batching is off

so yeah: batching = off, the page for hypervisor communication = deallocated, static key = disabled. iconic behavior, no notes 💖

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

kernel file: ./drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c — the whole squad lives there:

• enum vmballoon_cmd_type(9)
• struct vmballoon_batch_entry(9)
• vmballoon_send_guest_id(9)
• vmballoon_page_order(9)
• vmballoon_page_in_frames(9)
• vmballoon_mark_page_offline(9)
• vmballoon_mark_page_online(9)
• vmballoon_send_get_target(9)
• vmballoon_alloc_page_list(9)
• vmballoon_handle_one_result(9)
• vmballoon_status_page(9)
• vmballoon_lock_op(9)
• vmballoon_add_page(9)
• vmballoon_lock(9)
• vmballoon_release_page_list(9)
• vmballoon_change(9)
• vmballoon_enqueue_page_list(9)
• vmballoon_dequeue_page_list(9)
• vmballoon_split_refused_pages(9)
• vmballoon_inflate(9)
• vmballoon_deflate(9)
• vmballoon_init_batching(9)
• vmballoon_vmci_init(9)
• vmballoon_pop(9)
• vmballoon_work(9)
• vmballoon_shrinker_scan(9)
• vmballoon_shrinker_count(9)
• vmballoon_debug_show(9)
• vmballoon_migratepage(9)

mwah 💋 source spot: ./drivers/misc · date: October 2026 · page: vmballoon_deinit_batching(9) 🫶✨